The 2025 Cancer in Iowa report revealed that Iowa’s cancer rate is the second fastest growing in the country. A recent investigation reveals that the news is even worse for younger Iowans. The Washington Post published an in-depth report on Oct. 27, 2025, investigating the number of young adults (20s, 30s and 40s) in Iowa and other Midwest corn belt states who’ve been diagnosed with cancer. Among the personal stories profiled in the Washington Post report were: A 25-year-old

In September of 2020, I went in to get my very first mammogram. I almost didn’t do it; I had a meeting to get to at work and thought, “No one in my family has cancer, that won’t be what I get," and I was only 41 years old. But I changed my mind and decided I’d better go. Two hours after the mammogram, I got a call. That call was what I would still describe as the scariest part of this entire journey – I could hear the panic in the nurse’s voice as she told me that they’d foun

Heart disease can directly affect, and be affected by, a history of breast cancer.